GONZALES - An Ascension Parish grand jury has indicted a Carville man in the rape and slaying of an 18-year-old woman abducted from a Dutchtown convenience store in 1990.

Tolbert Morris is charged with second-degree kidnapping, aggravated rape and first-degree murder in the slaying of Tammy Laine Bowers.

Prosecutors have said 43-year-old Herman Frazier admitted in September to a role in the abduction, rape and slaying, but also accused Morris of raping Bowers and being the person who beat her to death.